Gregor Stähli (born 28 February 1968 in Zürich) is a Swiss skeleton racer who has competed since 1989. He won two bronze Winter Olympic medals in the men's skeleton, earning them in 2002 and 2006.
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Born | 28 February 1968 Zürich, Switzerland | (age 56)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Stähli also won ten medals at the FIBT World Championships, with three golds (men's skeleton: 1994, 2007, 2009), four silvers (men's skeleton: 1992, 2000, 2005, Mixed team: 2009), and three bronzes (men's skeleton: 1990, 1993; mixed team: 2007). He was overall men's Skeleton World Cup champion in 2001–02.
On 20 November 2009, Stähli suffered a thigh injury during the World Cup competition in Lake Placid, New York, which eventually forced his withdrawal from the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver eight weeks later.
External links
edit- Official website
- Gregor Staehli at the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
- Gregor Staehli at Olympics.com
- Gregor Stähli at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Gregor Staehli at SkeletonSport.com at archive.today (archived 2012-05-24)
- "Staehli to miss Vancouver Games" Archived 2010-03-10 at the Wayback Machine. UniversalSports.com. 15 January 2010. Accessed 28 January 2010.
- List of men's skeleton World Cup champions since 1987 (sports123.com) at the Wayback Machine (archived November 5, 2011)
- Men's skeleton Olympic medalists since 1928 (sports123.com) Archived 2020-02-06 at the Wayback Machine
- Men's skeleton world championship medalists since 1989 (sports123.com) at the Wayback Machine (archived September 29, 2007)
- Mixed bobsleigh-skeleton world championship medalists since 2007 (sports123.com) at the Wayback Machine (archived September 29, 2007)